From: BOBHUGHES@TTLC.NET
On 4 Nov 2004 19:54:01 -0800, shanemacgowan5700@yahoo.com (Phil)
wrote:
>"yesguy" wrote in message news:...
>> do lyrics have to make sense all the time, or just capture a theme?
>>
>> is all poetry just laid out there in black and white, or should some of the
>> lines be rather crypric in flavor?
>>
>> i don't have the answers. i don't think Mike Love has either. but we all
>> have opinions
>>
>> as for Mike Love's observations about Smile, he was probably not too
>> satisfied with the success of Pet Sounds, and wanted to fall back on the old
>> sounds/productions. (as he does today). but you would have thought that
>> the worldly success of Good Vibrations, would have made him a convert to the
>> new generation musical sounds.
>>
>> SMiLe was not an album where the new vision could be compromised.
>>
>> i think that the group's non support of the project as a whole was probably
>> one of the biggest flubs in modern pop music. this group needed a dose of
>> hip and it would have put them on top of the progressive musical mountain.
>>
>> my opinion for what it's worth. probably not much :-)
>
>
>It is worth a lot. Your opinion is well thought out. And I happen to
>agree that Van Dyke Park's lyrics are abstract poetry and very good
>abstract poetry I might add. Although I am still wondering what
>columnated ruins domino means....
Well if you watch the light show at Brian's concerts, you'd know it
means the columns fall over.
Bob Hughes
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